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Monday, 7 November 2016

Well would you look at that!

It took a while but finally the page views on my blog have surpassed the
one million mark. I wondered if the counter would return to zero once it
reached a million, but it is still clicking up …phew! I know some blogs get a million page views or
more a day, but I didn’t expect to get any so it means the world to me. I also
know page views are not the same as unique views, but I don’t care! Thank you
lovely blog readers you are the best!

My wish is a long time in coming to you ...

But the longer I waited the bigger it grew - and ...

GREW!

THANK YOU! Just like this little elephant I will never forget.

* Colour printed birthday card part of my collection. Published by Satchwell Smiths, London,
c1950s. One sheet of paper folded to
create a card that ‘grows’. I’ve added quite a few vintage Christmas cards
to my collection this year and will be sharing some of them in a future post.

Sweet Barbara!!!! Congratulations! And that little elephant that keeps growing and growing is soooooo cute! I never looked at those numbers on my blog before until not long ago. It's nice to know people are watching! Happy day my dear, and thank you for viewing my Instagram!

I’m sure your count is far higher than mine will ever be Anita and your blog certainly deserves it. I love visiting your Instagram account. I always look forward to it. Thank you very much for your visits and comments, they mean so much.

This is gonna be fun....HeHe! :).Well..l thought the elephant at the end..look a bit 'tarty'. Nice but tarty...! Seriously though! I love elephants..could'nt eat a whole one..but! :).

I was faffing about on my Blog, a couple of months ago, my one and only Blog...Of which,Ally is the author..And was born back in 2008.Not knowing what l was doing, l clicked onto summat, which gave the viewing figures..I've had 3:3 million viewers..Mind you that is from 2008..Know wonder, l keep getting hate mail, deaththreats, and, calls from the FBI..CIA..CID..! :).It's all a wonderful thing...AND..Barbara, you stickwith yours, it's brilliant, I~LOVE~IT..Always summat to comment on..or find something to twist about, for a giggle...! :). (Were's Finnigan)x Sooooooo! Summat for the kiddies...!!!! :0).

What is an elephants favourite sport? Squash.

When should you feed milk to a baby elephant? When it's a baby elephant!

How do you know when there is an elephant under your bed? When your nose touches the ceiling!

What do you call an elephant in a phone booth? Stuck!

Why did the elephant cross the road? because the chicken wanted a day off.

What do you call an elephant that flies? A jumbo jet! (I'll go and hide now).

Thank you Sue. I searched my memory banks (such as they are) and found the elephant joke it must have been hiding in there somewhere. I wonder if I heard it in Australia? I think I must have done, if not it has been lurking there for years!

THE BIG ELEPHANT....One day an elephant wandered into a forest in search of friends. He saw a monkey on a tree. “Will you be my friend?" asked the elephant. Replied the monkey, “You are too big. You can not swing from trees like me." Next, the elephant met a rabbit. He asked him to be his friends. But the rabbit said, “You are too big to play in my burrow!" Then the elephant met a frog. “Will you be my friend? He asked. “How can I?" asked the frog. “You are too big to leap about like me." The elephant was upset. He met a fox next. “Will you be my friend?" he asked the fox. The fox said, “Sorry, sir, you are too big." The next day, the elephant saw all the animals in the forest running for their lives. The elephant asked them what the matter was. The bear replied, “There is a tiger in the forest. He’s trying to gobble us all up!" The animals all ran away to hide. The elephant wondered what he could do to solve everyone in the forest. Meanwhile, the tiger kept eating up whoever he could find. The elephant walked up to the tiger and said, “Please, Mr. Tiger, do not eat up these poor animals." “Mind your own business!" growled the tiger. The elephant has a no choice but to give the tiger a hefty kick. The frightened tiger ran for his life. The elephant ambled back into the forest to announce the good news to everyone. All the animals thanked the elephant. They said, “You are just the right size to be our friend."

Hi Linda, I love the elephant too. I can’t stop buying vintage cards and postcards. They are such a joy and relatively inexpensive. The other good thing is they take up little space, so I’m beginning to think they are the perfect things to collect. Thank you for your kind comment about my blog.

Excellent news, Barbara. I was thrilled when I got over the 1000 views - a million is brilliant!! My next aim is 100,000 - only 75,000 to go :) The most important thing is that you are having fun. Have a super week. Love the elephant pics.

Hello Nicola, I’ve just visited your blog and can see you are well past the first thousand views now. It is surprising how they mount up. I’ve just followed you and will be visiting often - " little helps" as they say on the Tesco ad! I’m glad you liked the elephant. Have a good week. Barbara

Wow, I'm impressed, Barbara, congratulations! And you've got another 2400 views just in the short time between your post and my comment. The elephant card is adorable. One of my lifelong favorite riddles is about an elephant (probably because it's one of the few I can remember since childhood; in fact I think I even included it in my first Amy book.) Anyway, here goes: Why did the elephant sit on the marshmallow? So he wouldn't fall into the hot chocolate!

Yes, yes, I saw the million page-view box before I read this post. Congratulations, Barbara! (And yes, don't care about the unique views or whatever. Just be happy.) The views will keep coming in. Congratulations again!

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About Me

This is where I share my collection of vintage
books, and other favourite things. I
also showcase new children’s books written by authors I admire. I am an
ex-bookseller, now full time blogger. My husband and I live in a small village
in Somerset, UK. Thanks for visiting. Barbara xx

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